Asked the City Manager to confer with the Assistant City Manager for Fiscal Affairs with a view in mind of scheduling two finance committee hearings to be chaired by a Councillor of the Mayor’s choosing, one as an update from the head of the Finance department and the other to review budget priorities, to be held in the middle of February

How it started

Jan 25, 2016 · Proposed by Councillors Mazen and Carlone and Vice Mayor Devereux: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jan 25, 2016 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one not recorded)

Present and voting at this meeting (8)

David Maher
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Leland Cheung
Marc McGovern
Nadeem Mazen
Timothy J. Toomey

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

The document a council order

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City of Cambridge

IN CITY COUNCIL

January 25, 2016

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the Assistant City Manager for Fiscal Affairs with a view in mind of scheduling two Finance Committee hearings to be chaired by a Councillor of the Mayor’s choosing, one as an update from the head of the Finance department and the other to review budget priorities, to be held in the middle of February.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jan 25, 2016